A War Like No Other: How The Athenians & Spartans Fought The Peloponnesian War
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A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Victor Davis Hanson
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Provocative military historian Victor Davis Hanson has given painstakingly researched &; pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the 21st century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other. Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic poleis of Athens &; Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the collapse of Athens &; the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote the standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has given readers throughout the ages a vivid &; authoritative narrative. But Hanson offers something new: a complete chronological account that reflects the political background of the time, the strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle in multifaceted theaters &; insight into how these events echo in the present. He compellingly portrays the ways Athens &; Sparta fought on land &; sea, in city &; countryside, &; details their employment of the full scope of conventional &; nonconventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture &; terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles &; Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes, &; thinkers including Sophocles &; Plato. Hanson's perceptive analysis of events &; personalities raises many thought-provoking questions: Were Athens &; Sparta like America &; Russia, two superpowers battling to the death? Is the Peloponnesian War echoed in the endless, frustrating conflicts of Vietnam, Northern Ireland &; the current Middle East? Or was it more like America's own Civil War, a brutal rift that rent the fabric of a glorious society, or even this century's "red stateblue state" schism between liberals &; conservatives, a cultural war that manifestly controls military policies? Hanson daringly brings the facts to life &; unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present. Brilliantly researched, dynamically written, A War Like No Other is like no other history of this important war.
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